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- Title
Automatic Speckle Noise Reduction in SAR Imagery Using Optimized Kernel Support Vector Machine.
- Authors
Parhad, Saurabh Vijay; Warhade, Krishna K.; Shitole, Sanjay S.
- Abstract
Speckle noise (SN) is one of the major types of noise that frequently occurs in different coherent imaging systems such as medical imaging, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and active Radar images. SAR is a powerful imaging technology that generates fine-resolution images and monitors the earth's surface in order to identify its physical properties. The satellite images captured by SAR are mainly affected by SN, which reduces the quality of images and complicates the image representation. Therefore, removing SN from SAR images is one of the major challenges and needs significant attention. The proposed study introduces an optimal Machine Learning (ML) classifier named Kernel Support Vector Machine-Improved Aquila Optimization (KSVM-IAO) for reducing SN in SAR images. This study uses a two-step process called filtering and enhanced despeckling to minimize the consequence of speckle suppression. In the first step, different imaging filters, namely Improved Lee Filter (ILF), Improved Frost Filter (IFF), Improved Kuan Filter (IKF) and Improved Boxcar Filter (IBF), are utilized to remove the SN in SAR images. Next, the denoised image is fed to the second stage, which makes use of an optimized KSVM-IAO classifier to obtain an enhanced despeckle image. The hyperparameters of KSVM are tuned using the IAO algorithm, which reduces overfitting issues and increases accuracy. MATLAB is the simulation tool used for the analysis of SAR images. The simulation outcomes reveal that the proposed KSVM-IAO method obtained excellent SN removal while preserving the edges and fine details with low computational complexity.
- Subjects
SPECKLE interference; SUPPORT vector machines; NOISE control; SYNTHETIC aperture radar; MEDICAL imaging systems; SURFACE of the earth
- Publication
International Journal of Computational Intelligence & Applications, 2024, Vol 23, Issue 2, p1
- ISSN
1469-0268
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1142/S1469026824500019